[3] On 12 May 2011, Polish Defence Minister Bogdan Klich said that Poland would lead a new EU Battlegroup of the Visegrád Group.

The decision was made at the V4 defence ministers' meeting in Levoča, Slovakia, and the battlegroup became operational and was placed on standby in the first half of 2016.

[4] To become a strategic success, the battlegroup experience needs to be seized upon to open the door for more permanent forms of collaboration in the region.

On Polish suggestion, the V4 agreed "to form another V4 EU Battlegroup in the second semester of 2019".

The Battlegroup is deemed the 'flagship'[7] of intensified future "systemic and systematic defence planning, exercises and perhaps even procurement and maintenance"[8] amongst the V4.